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'You'll now be at the mercy of what loot you can find': Rust's latest update brings back hardcore mode tougher than ever, removing the ability to craft guns entir…

To coincide with the update, Facepunch has slashed Rust's price in half, bringing it down from $40 (£35) to $20 (£17.50).

AOL discontinues its dial-up internet, and we're just surprised they even offered it in 2025

On September 30, AOL's dial-up hold-outs will need to finally move on to another internet service. AOL announced this week ...

The Battlefield 6 beta has broken Call of Duty's Steam player count record, surging past half a million concurrents

Some caveats on the Call of Duty comparison: Steam concurrents never show the whole picture for multiplatform games, and even ...

As the bots take over Verdansk, Warzone and Stalker are beginning to meld in my brain

By all accounts, this A-Life system was toned down by the time of Stalker's release, but even its echoes are evocative. It's ...

How much do you know about the universe of Warhammer 40,000? Put your faith in the Emperor to the test with our latest quiz

For over two decades now, Warhammer 40,000 facts and lore have been accumulating in my brain like calcium buildup in your ...

The US Air Force wants to test blowing up Cybertrucks because 'it is likely the type of vehicles used by the enemy may transition to Tesla Cyber trucks'

Back in 2024, the leader of the Chechen Republic, Ramzan Kadyrov, did post a video of himself riding a Cybertruck with a ...

Steam has a sale celebrating small developers, and you can get my favorite post-Balatro deckbuilder for just $2

Save on games and support small dev teams at the same time, now through August 14th.

I finally played Duke Nukem Forever's unfinished 2001 build, and while it probably would have been better than Gearbox's fiasco, it still wouldn't hold u…

Like a lot of middle-aged PC gamers, I've often wondered what this version of Duke Nukem Forever might be like to play. But ...

The follow-up to one of the decade's best detective games will have you selling cursed antiques to Victorian weirdos next month

As the name implies, Strange Antiquities swaps out the flora for relics and artifacts crafted by (probably) human hands. Yet ...

'Let's just kill everyone on the station:' The videogame audio log was apparently invented to avoid 'awkward' RPG dialogue trees

System Shock dev Marc LeBlanc shared the story on a recent Nightdive podcast. In a recent episode of Nightdive's Deep Dive podcast, Looking Glass Studios programmer Marc LeBlanc shared his ...

The iconic look of BioShock's Big Daddy has its roots in System Shock 2's low polygon counts: 'If you embraced your designing limitations on that stuff, you'd end up with a ...

BioShock 's Big Daddy is one of gaming's most iconic enemy designs. The drillbit-wielding, diving-helmet wearing protectors of Rapture are synonymous with Irrational's classic shooter, to the point ...

I don't want to hear a another peep about the 'AI future' until they make multi monitor support not suck

I'm happy to report, though, that my Win+Shift+P trick just started working again for some reason, even though I did not do or change anything. Ditto for mouse lock. I started replaying Pillars of ...